There is to be a grand contest at the half-yearly
meeting of the Great Eastern Railway on the 21th inst. Captain Jervis, the deputy-chairman, intends to call for a committee of inquiry into the conduct of his colleagues, the state of the permanent way, the purchases of rolling stock, the mode in which dividends are made up, the amount of debentures, the concession of contracts, and in fact everything railway boards like to keep pleasant. His colleagues retort that he is the only dissatisfied director, which is not very probable, and that they have answers to all his statements, which is. We trust two or three Liberal shareholders with strong lungs intend to attend the meeting, and ask questions about Captain Jervis's election for Harwich, and whether it has been in any way expensive to the company.
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